World Health Organization : Report on a European Syposium Convened by the Regional Office for Europe, Environmental Pollutants Ehc, No. 74.1: World Health Organization Organisation Mondiale de la Sant

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Title:	World Health Organization : Report on a European Syposium Convened by the Regional Office for Europe, Environmental Pollutants Ehc, No. 74.1: World Health Organization Organisation Mondiale de la Sant
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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PREFACE The review of work representing the United States c o n t r i b u t i o n an Manganese and i t s Compounds i n Relation to Health, 1967-1973, has not i n every instance been r e s t r i c t e d t o t h i s seven-year period. E a r l i e r work was sometimes c i t e d f o r t h e purpose o f providing c l a r i t y t o the subject matter under discussion. Many important foreign references were omitted, i n accordance w i t h i n s t r u c t i o n s , i n order t o p r i m a r i l y r e s t r i c t this c o n t r i b u t i o n t o a n a t i o n a l l e v e l . We wish t o f u l l y acknowledge the importance of non-U. S. s c i e n t i f i c pub1 i cations i n making substantive c o n t r i b u t i o n s t o the t o t a l s c i e n t i f i c knowledge concerning manganese and have s i n c e r e l y appreciated t h e o p p o r t u n i t y o f u t i l i z i n g t h i s i n f o r - mation, t o the best of our a b i l i t y , f o r formulating our n a t i o n a l s t r a t e g y r e l a t i n g t o manganese as an environmental p o l l u t a n t .

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CONTENTS .Pago 1 . UNI'I'I*:ISI TATES OVERVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Background summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.1 Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2 Purity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.3 Wantitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.3.1 Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R 3.3.2 Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Refcroncos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4 . SOURCES OF F:NVIHONMWTAL POLLUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.1-4.4 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5 . IINVIHONMENTAL EXPOSURE LEVELS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.1 Love'1.s i. n Air. Water and Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 S.1.1. Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.1.2 Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.1.3 Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5.2 Occupational Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3 Hequirement and Effective Human Exposure 26 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . WVJHONMKNTAL DISTRIBUTION AND TRANSFORMATION 28 6.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 6.2 Environmantal Transformation and Removal . . . . . . . . . . . 29 6.2.1 Dissolution in Frosh Water and Sea Water . . . . . . . . 29 6.2.2 Rainout and Washout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 6.2.3 Runoff into Fresh Water and Sea Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 6.2.4 Microbiological Utilization in the Soil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6 . 2 . 5 Metabolism and Dioconcontration . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6.2.6 Uptake by Soil and Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6.3 Photochemical and/or Thermal Reactions in the Lower Atmosphere 31 7.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Rcforoncos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34